Reporting & Business Intelligence (BI) - business process & software solutions

What can reporting / business intelligence do for you?

- "You rely upon reports to make critical business decisions. You need to be sure that you can trust that the underlying data is accurate, complete and timely."

- "You want to analyze information in one place based upon a variety of source systems across the enterprise. You have to be confident that all relevant data has been identified, collected and reconciled regardless of where it resides."

- "You don't have much time available to analyze your business, because you spend far too much time gathering information."

- "It seems you have far too many reports, and its difficult to obtain the end result you need. Getting to the right information should be as easy as searching on Google."

- "You want a tool / dashboard that shows current operating conditions at a glance and alerts you when conditions stray outside your key performance indicator (KPI) thresholds."

- "You need to start with an intuitive summary level report that then allows you to "drill down" into more detail from there."

Translating data into useful information

Well managed companies focus on streamlining operations, adding customers, increasing revenue and profitability and staying ahead of competition. Often, significant benefit can also be realized by spending more time analyzing activities and predicting and planning for the future. Ideally, you want to monitor operations and quickly find and resolve potential problems while leveraging new opportunities. In order to accomplish these goals, your company's analysis capabilities must graduate from spreadsheets to a more powerful tool, consisting of comprehensive reporting / business intelligence (BI).

Mining transactional data for business intelligence

Processes and systems to efficiently manage reporting / information management / business intelligence (BI) are critical to success. Quorum advocates a systematic, multi dimensional approach to addressing data access, display, reporting, end-user ad-hoc query, and executive and analytical reporting requirements - the Quorum Multi Dimensional Reporting Solution. Quorum makes available expertise, strategy, tools and services to implement a comprehensive reporting / business intelligence (BI) initiative, either in a single project or in stages orchestrated gradually over time.

Key elements include:

Quorum's Multi Dimensional Reporting Solution



		Executive & Analytical Reporting (BI)	Executive & analytical reporting (BI) - enterprise and executive reporting and analytics, including dashboards (leveraging BusinessObjects tool)
		End-user Ad-hoc Query Tools	End-user ad-hoc query tool - custom interactive queries & reports created on-demand by non-technical users
		Tailored Reports	Tailored reports - tailored, pre-configured reports created during software implementation project
		Formatted Reports	Formatted reports - pre-configured reports supplied with software, ad-hoc or scheduled (e.g. state regulatory reports)
		Software Data Display Features	Software data display features - standard software features, including screens, display filters, grids, tables, excel extracts, etc.

Quorum Multi Dimensional Reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions

Quorum has experience in the Reporting / Business Intelligence (BI) process in design, implementation, training and support of configurable, sustainable, scalable information technology solutions to manage business activities efficiently and cost effectively. In addition to consulting services, we provide a full range of software solutions specific to the Reporting / Business Intelligence (BI) process, including:

Quorum Enterprise-wide Software Portfolio for Reporting & Business Intelligence process

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Multi Dimensional Reporting & Business Intelligence (BI) Solution

Software data display features

Standard with each Quorum software solution are a variety of data display features that provide efficient ways to access information, including:

logical system navigation making it easy to get to information contained in the system
intuitive screen layouts with drop downs, tabs, etc.
display filters, easily configurable by users
grids, easily manipulated by users
tables, easily manipulated by users
MS Excel extracts, easily employed by users

The strength of these features effectively minimizes the need to resort to formalized reports for many basic data access requirements.

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Tailored reports

In certain cases, clients have regular reporting requirements that extend beyond the capabilities of the Formatted Reports that come standard with each Quorum software solution. In such cases, as part of the initial software implementation project, Quorum creates reports that are tailored to the client's specific requirements. Once completed, these reports are available for access in the same manner as for the standard Quorum Formatted Reports.

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